The new inclusion cheques, set to begin in January 2024, would cost around €5.4 billion annually. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ROME – Italy’s right-wing government on Monday rolled back anti-poverty subsidies introduced in 2019 that helped some four million people in 2022, as critics denounced a “provocation” on the international May Day labour holiday.
The new inclusion cheques, set to begin in January 2024, would cost around €5.4 billion annually, and be available only to households with minors, seniors 60 or older, and handicapped people.while also promising to restore Italy’s economic credibility“We are reforming the citizens’ income to make a distinction between those who are able to work and those who aren’t,” Ms Meloni said in a statement.
The government also said jobseekers would have to sign up for training programmes or “useful projects for the community”, in exchange for a maximum of €350 a month – a measure that would cost €2.1 billion in 2024 alone.The citizens’ income programme was introduced by the populist Five Star Movement in 2019, and supporters say it has provided precious help to millions of low-income households, in particular in impoverished southern regions.
“A serious government does not meet on May 1 to condemn young people to a life of precariousness, destroying their dream of having a home or children,” said former Five Star premier Giuseppe Conte.
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